"WHAT'S IN A NAME?" BEING A POPULAR EXPLANATION OF ORDINARY CHRISTIAN-NAMES OF BY T. NICKLE NICHOLS. "A good name, a good omen."-OLD PROVERB. LONDON: ROUTLEDGE, WARNES, AND ROUTLEDGE, FARRINGDON-STREET. NEW YORK: 56, WALKER-STREET. 1859. [The Author reserves the right of Translation.] 301. c. 8. INTRODUCTION. CHRISTIAN-NAMES are not, as is commonly supposed, mere combinations of unmeaning sounds, devised for no other purpose than to distinguish one member of a family from another; but they are expressive-and mostly very expressive-appellations. That names were from the first intended to be significative, is exemplified in the case of those borne by our original parents, Adam and Eve; both names serving, as they did, for a means not only of discriminating one from the other, but of conveying to us an explanation of the nature of man's primary |